Three Opportunities for the Future of Juvenile Forensic Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 1671-1677
Author(s):  
Thomas Grisso
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Forensic Assessment ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Forensic Evaluations ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
The Future

Legal and social circumstances now offer the field of juvenile forensic assessment several opportunities to expand its identity, influence, and value to society. These opportunities include (a) conceptualizing an assessment domain called evaluations for developmental sentencing, (b) creating developmental forensic evaluations of emerging adults, and (c) adapting juvenile forensic assessments to the nation’s increasing ethnic and cultural diversity. If successfully attempted, these opportunities could transform juvenile forensic assessment’s identity, reimagining itself as developmental forensic assessment applied to offenders in both juvenile and criminal courts.

Cultural Diversity Challenges

2009 ◽  
pp. 2493-2509
Author(s):  
Haiyan Huang ◽  
Eileen M. Trauth
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Distributed Software ◽  
The Future ◽  
Globally Distributed ◽  
Information Technology Workforce

This chapter discusses cultural diversity challenges in globally distributed software development and the implications for educating and managing the future global information technology workforce. It argues that the work practices of global software development are facing a variety of challenges associated with cultural diversity, which are manifested in and can be analyzed from three dimensions: the work environment of global software development, the globally distributed knowledge workers, and the global software development work. It further articulates how cultural diversity is manifested in these three dimensions. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of developing cultural awareness and cultural diversity understanding as important skills for the future information technology workforce.

Globalisation's Challenge to the Islamic Ummah

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riaz Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Islamic Movements ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Development And Evolution

AbstractThe concept of ummah embodies the universalism of Islam and provides a framework for religious unity, which accommodates the cultural diversity of believers. It is an important part of historical as well as contemporary discourse on Islam. This paper provides an overview of the development and evolution of the concept of ummah and its usage in Islamic discourse to explain the current social, political and economic conditions of the Muslim world. It reports the findings about ummah consciousness and its relationship to modernity in Muslim countries of Southeast Asia, South and Central Asia, and the Middle East. It will examine the impact of globalisation on the Islamic ummah and how it is shaping the emerging struggle between 'hybridity' and 'authenticity' among Muslims and Islamic movements. The paper will explore the challenges of this struggle and its sociological implications for the 'de-centering' of the Muslim world into multiple autonomous regions. It will argue that the future of the Muslim ummah may gain strength not as a unified and unitary community, but as a differentiated community consisting of ummahs representing different Islamic regions. Each regional ummah will possess and embody a unique character that has been moulded by the history and temperament of its people. The paper will conclude with some observations on the future religious, intellectual, economic and political trajectories of Muslim countries.

scholarly journals Understanding culture as a project

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata M. Leitão ◽  
Solen Roth
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Action Project ◽  
Research Action

This article argues that, in collaboration with Indigenous [and non-Western local] communities, social designers should approach “culture” not only as a form of heritage that should be preserved and transmitted, but also as a project that weaves together heritage, current material circumstances, and desirable ideas for the future. We therefore examine the notion that every culture is intrinsically oriented towards the future, representing a trajectory that links the past to a projected ideal of well-being. Thus, cultural diversity leads to numerous trajectories and distinct futures, contrary to the colonial ideology according to which only one trajectory is possible: that which adheres to the project of eurocentric modernity. Based on a participatory research action project called Tapiskwan, which focused on the aspirations of the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok, we propose that the ultimate goal of social designers should be to nurture local communities’ capacity to (re)create their own autonomous trajectories, in pursuit of the good life as their culture defines it. 

scholarly journals COVID-19 and LGBTQ Emerging Adults: Risk in the Face of Social Distancing

2020 ◽  
pp. 216769682096869
Author(s):  
Barrett Scroggs ◽  
Heather A. Love ◽  
Chelsey Torgerson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face

The coronavirus pandemic that began in December 2019 (COVID-19) quickly spread globally with an increased transmission in the United States beginning in March 2020. Social distancing guidelines were instituted across the country, limiting contact individuals could have with others. This compared the mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) emerging adults who completed the survey before ( n = 1,190) many social distancing guidelines went into effect with those who completed the survey after ( n = 705). Participants who participated in the survey after social distancing guidelines were initiated reported lower levels of hope for the future, higher levels of alcohol use, a lower sense of connection to and pride regarding the LGBTQ community, and a lower sense of minority stress. Results indicate a detrimental response to social distancing in the days immediately following the onset of such guidelines as confusion reigned and expectations changed day to day.

The use of Placebo Trials as Part of a Forensic Assessment

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Forensic Assessment ◽  
Forensic Evaluations ◽  
Forensic Patients ◽  
Diagnostic Use ◽  
Clinical Methods ◽  
Clinical Cases

The detection of malingering in the context of forensic evaluations has received increasing attention in the literature, with more careful research and analyses of a variety of clinical methods being employed for that purpose. The author presents three clinical cases as examples of the use of placebo trials in the differential diagnosis of malingering, and discusses the validity of such trials as well as ethical issues raised by the use of placebos without informed consent. Suggested guidelines for the diagnostic use of placebos with forensic patients are presented.

Cultural Diversity Challenges

2008 ◽  
pp. 2677-2683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Huang ◽  
Eileen M. Trauth
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Distributed Software ◽  
The Future ◽  
Globally Distributed ◽  
Information Technology Workforce

This chapter discusses cultural diversity challenges in globally distributed software development and the implications for educating and managing the future global information technology workforce. It argues that the work practices of global software development are facing a variety of challenges associated with cultural diversity, which are manifested in and can be analyzed from three dimensions: the work environment of global software development, the globally distributed knowledge workers, and the global software development work. It further articulates how cultural diversity is manifested in these three dimensions. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of developing cultural awareness and cultural diversity understanding as important skills for the future information technology workforce.

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